1 Personal College of Technology
Manchester 26-2-19 My dear Forth
Delighted to get your
letter of the 5th and to know
that you are none the worse. It was refreshing to notice
that your signature had
lost little of its old swing. Carry on, old friend. You were asking about
Fox's successor. Well, the enclosed
cutting from the Guardian
will tell you all about it. This is the day of
young men: Professor Turner
is 29! I don't suppose he
knows anything about Textiles.
But he's a Cambridge man, and, 2 good God, what more do you want? Did you notice that out
Chief (who is a very big pot indeed,
by the way) go the C.B.E.? And the Committee, bless 'em,
are going to give him a
rise of £400. Hurroo! What it is to be an arm-
chair stay-at-home warrior. Excuse my levity, old chap.
Some day I'll write you a
personal note about my boy,
who, incidentally, is a dam
good poet and a dam
good musician, but who is
trying to make money by
persuading people to buy some. Thing they don't want but which
he thinks is good for them. Ever yours, Harry Williams. 3 MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY. THE PRINCIPAL'S SALARY. At a meeting of the Manchester Education
Committee yesterday, it was agreed to recom-
mend the City Council to advance the salary
of Mr. J. C. Maxwell Garnett, Principal of the
Municipal College of Technology, from £1,000 to
£1,400 per annum. Sir Thomas Shann (chair-
man), in submitting the recommendation, said
Mr. Garnett had had no advance of salary since
his appointment, seven years ago. Councillor Grant (deputy chairman), in
seconding, said the Manchester College of Tech-
nology was the largest of its kind in this
country, except one in London, and in that case
the salary of the chief was something over
£2, 000 a year. Sir Henry Miers (Vice Chan-
cellor of the University) supported the proposal,
which was passed unanimously. A New Appointment. The Committee confirmed the appointment of
Mr. Arthur James Turner as professor of tex-
tile technology in the College. Mr. Turner has
had a distinguished career at Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied
natural science and mathematics, obtaining
first-class honours in the Natural Science
Tripos, part 1, 1910, a second-class in the
Mathematics Tripos, part 1, 1911, and first-class
in the Natural Science Tripos, part II., 1912.
He was also awarded the degree of B. Sc. with
first class honours in the University of London
in 1912. During the latter part of 19112 Mr. Turner
was engaged in research work in organic
chemistry at Cambridge, under Professor Pope.
He later accepted an appointment upon the
scientific staff of the National Physical Labora-
tory, where he was chiefly engaged in research
work on fabrics and dopes for aeronautical
purposes. Following this he was appointed to
the charge of the Fabrics Laboratory of the
Royal Aircraft Establishment, where he has
been engaged on a number of investigations of
textile problems, chiefly from the physico-
chemical point of view. Mr. Turner was also
engagaed upon researches involving the study of
the differences of spinning and doubling twists
throughout a complete range of the various
materials used in the manufacture of yarns and
fabrics, and for cotton in particular.